Search results matching tag 'Chris Moyles'

Sir Terry Wogan - the new Russell Brand

1704826 — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 09:26:00 GMT

I don't listen to Sir Terry Wogan's Radio 2 show but apparently 8m people do, which can't be bad and suggests he must be doing something right.

But what has struck me is that, certainly recently, cuddly ol' Tel has started to turn into a bit of a cantankerous old sod - he spectacularly bit that hand that fed him when he derided one of the most hateful consequences of the European Coal and Steel Community - Eurovision.

He admitted taking a fee for hosting Children In Need (and who can blame him for that) and he has just rather ungallantly described the fragrant Fiona Bruce as needing a lot of lippy, following an attack on the skills needed by newsreaders. He is also spectacularly rude to the oafish Chris Moyles.

In short it seems that he has become rather edgy so his decision to step aside in favour of Chris Evans, who was always a better radio than TV broadcaster, to launch a new show begs some interesting questions.

Is this new show an excuse to be rude and say inappropriate to whoever he likes? I hope so.

At least Parky knows he's a nobody

1704826 — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 09:33:00 GMT

Last week the over-exposed shouty face of Channel 4 Davina McCall appeared as the guest on BBC One's Who Do You Think You Are? And never has a more apposite question been posed, although I'd have added the word ' Exactly' after 'Who'.

It transpired that like virtually everyone else who has appeared on the show, there was an element of tragedy and glamour and exoticism in her blood line and that McCall, a purveyor of the cheapest tat on TV, was related to some French policeman who was famous for something that I can't remember.

Ignorant Radio 1 lout Chris Moyles, who has somehow also escaped the axe despite being the wrong side of 30, famously made a poor taste joke about Who Do You Think You Are? along the lines of everyone seemed to have someone die at Auschwitz. While this isn't true, the show does seem to relish in finding tragedy in a celebrities family tree (not difficult) and then film them blubbing. Even Jeremy Paxman got all weepy for some reason or other.

Refreshing then that Sir Michael Parkinson has announced that he was due to go on the show but they had to cancel him as his family line was too boring. Refreshing but not entirely surprising.

So that's one piece of good news in the Autumn schedule - we won't have to hear Parky banging on about his days as a cub reporter at the Yorkshire Post, his wife Mary, cricket, Yorkshire and his encounters with Muhammed Ali. Or watch him crying over someone he never knew.

Chris Moyles the saviour of . . .

2228399 — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 12:55:00 GMT

I never thought I'd hear Chris Moyles talking about "consultation" - but he did just that in his breakfast show yesterday morning.

As a brand of research activity consultation rates pretty low in the general public's perception - with most people associating consultation exercises with village halls, weak coffee, stale biscuits, and even staler conversation.

So it's nice to see the self-styled "Saviour of Radio" bigging up the BBC Trust's latest consultation exercise - and putting some real energy into it. Maybe this is because this isn't a village hall-styled consultation - but instead an easy-to-use e-consultation without a stale biscuit in sight.

Perhaps as Chris Moyles has now established himself as the Saviour of Radio, he should be looking to move on to save other communication channels. "Chris Moyles Saviour of consultation" has a nice ring to it (ish)?!